Kick back watch it crumbleSee the drowning, watch the fallI feel just terrible about itThat's sarcasm, let it burnI'm gonna make a toast when it falls apartI'm gonna raise my glass above my heartThen someone shouts "That's what they get!"For all the years of hit and runFor all the piss broke bands on VH1Where did all, their money go?Don't we all knowParasitic music industryAs it destroys itselfWe'll show them how it's supposed to beMusic written from devotionNot ambition, not for fameZero people are exploitedThere are no tricks, up our sleeveGonna fight against the mass appealWe're gonna kill the 7 record dealMake records that have more than one good song[ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/n/noFx-lyrics/dinosaurs-will-die-lyrics.html ]The dinosaurs will slowly dieAnd I do believe no one will cryI'm just fucking glad I'm gonna beThere to watch the fallPrehistoric music industryThree feet in la brea tarExtinction never felt so goodIf you think anyone would feel badlyYou are sadly, mistakenThe time has come for evolutionFuck collusion, kill the fiveWhatever happened to the handshake?Whatever happened to deals no-one would break?What happened to integrity?It's still there it always wasFor playing music just becauseA million reason whyAll dinosaurs will dieAll dinosaurs will dieAll dinosaurs will die
The labels and corporate rock whores did this to themselves. Remember when CDs went from 11.99 to 16.99 then to 19.99. screw them screw the five, remember the masses are asses

I don't disagree with anything you just said, just as I don't disagree with what Steve said. However, that seems to me to be another symptom/result of a larger problem, not a root cause. That was my only issue.

When music in effect costs nothing thanks to piracy, many people will tend to amass huge amounts of music, while not caring as much about the quality, either musically or technically (mp3s). Pirating the music of most current artists is like eating for free at a really shitty all-you-can eat 1000-item Chinese buffet where you never feel satisfied, no matter how much you eat, but you convince yourself that it's great, because you got away with not paying, and there's so much shit to choose from.